A thief robs all the clients of a restaurant by hypnotising them. While driving a car, he empties three shop fronts and then electrocutes the police officers following him, all thanks to magnets. After a new burglary, he escapes thanks to a tram and a lift that gets him up into the sky.

Not specified

Depero Fortunato

Italy

Anacapri

États-Unis

Annandale-on-Hudson (New-York))

Printed outline

Hypnotism

Manipulation

Escape

Tramway

Lift

Dwarf

Burglary

Comical

Burlesque

Fantasy

Italian

Chase

Multiplied characters

Magic act

Scene with Hypnosis

Ladro automatico

Automatic thief

The count Franz Pocci comes back on Earth to see Munich, his good old city, once again. There, he encounters a series of characters that, each in their own way, prove the missteps of the Soviet Republic: the Demagogue–under the features of revolutionary Kurt Eisner; Death; the Jew and the Devil; then Kasperl and the Münchner Kindl (“Munich child”, figure inspired by the coat of arms of the city). At the end, a young war invalid arrives and gathers around him university students, workers: an exhilarated crowd, who, fulfilling the count’s wish, begins to awaken “the ancient force of the German people” (“die alte deutsche Volkeskraft”).

Adults

Pocci Ernst

Germany

Landshut

Printed

Bavaria

Revolution

People and history

Revenant

Communism

Conservatism

Red flag

Faust

Anti-Semitism

Catholicism

Money

Modernity

Politics

Spartacists

Nationalism

Polemical

Satirical

German

Ein Puppenspiel aus der Nachkriegszeit

Franz von Pocci

Demagogue

Death

Devil

Kasperl

Münchner Kindl

War invalid

Blacksmith

Student

People

Apparition

Worker

Instrumental tune

Off-stage voice

Prologue

Light effects

Philosophical dialogue

Caricature

Thunderbolt

Defecation on stage

Brawl

Versified passages

Word for another

Parody of formal language

Nachtschatten

Night shadows